אָזַל ʼâzal — to go away, hence, to disappear
Translated in the KJV as fail, gad about, go to and fro (but in Ezekiel 27:19 the word is rendered by many 'from Uzal, ' by others 'yarn'), be gone.
a primitive root; to go away, hence, to disappear.
ʼâzal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›